World

Australian 'The Voice' coach Delta Goodrem distances herself from Twitter blackface scandal involving singer Seal

Mike Gallagher

May 13, 2013 - 06:57

May 13, 2013 - 11:12

0 2.6k

Australian 'The Voice' coach Delta Goodrem distances herself from Twitter blackface scandal involving singer Seal

The Voice coach Delta Goodrem. Picture: Nic Gibson

DELTA Goodrem has distanced herself from a blackface photo scandal on Twitter.

Yesterday the TV star retweeted a photograph of fans dressed as The Voice"s judges at a costume party.

As well as a man in a blonde wig portraying Delta, one man is dressed in blackface to represent Seal complete with black paint over his face and arms and fake scars on his cheeks.

\"That is hilarious!! Hope u had fun! Ha!!,\" Goodrem wrote on Twitter before retweeting the photo.

Goodrem"s tweet was soon deleted after comedians started branding Goodrem \"racist\".

$\"the$

The Voice Australia 2013 mentors (from left) Seal, Delta Goodrem, Joel Madden and Ricky Martin. Supplied by Channel Nine. Pic. Supplied

\"Nah, blackface isn't hilarious, Delta. It's racist,\" Fear of a Brown Planet"s Nazeem Hussain tweeted to Goodrem.

Goodrem today was horrified to be viewed as racist.

\"In reference to a parody of the four coaches that was on Twitter, my retweeting was not intended to cause offence in any way,\" the singer told News Limited.

Hussain"s comedy partner Aamer Rahman tweeted the show and Goodrem"s fellow judges stating

\"Gosh it must be horrible to work with someone as stupid and racist as @DeltaGoodrem.\"

Comedian Felicity Ward compared the photo to the Jackson Jive blackface controversy seen on Hey Hey It"s Saturday in 2009.

Ward tweeted \"So Delts just RTd a picture of a dude \"blacking up\" as Seal. If Hey Hey it's Saturday has taught us anything at all... \"

Will Johnson, who posted the original picture, replied to Rahman stating \"just relax @aamer_rahman this was a dress up party and we wanted to go as something topical. Nothing more to it.\"